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it came from the gao office just last year, seven years after this. with that in mind, recognizing, as u as you point out, may fe tuntil 1 2015 than we are to believe today. have you considered that in your support of the brac? >> i have not seen the actual figures or the study you refer to, senator. i know. ly respond to your question. but i think from i don't know if it was the same gao report or another one, that note order the 2005 brac round in our facility. i'm going ask mr. hale to respond quickly. i know you read the report i refer to. i ask you share that with secretary hagel, which i'm sure you'll want to look at. i would only ask you consider that because those reasons for my opposition to seven years ago, eight years ago now are probably more true today. when the chairman talked about the missile defense thing, i was very pleased when he made the decision to increase back up to 44. on the west coast. automatic the things happening in north korea. i was over there recently i talked to you from other there, and i realized that this is someth
it came from the gao office just last year, seven years after this. with that in mind, recognizing, as u as you point out, may fe tuntil 1 2015 than we are to believe today. have you considered that in your support of the brac? >> i have not seen the actual figures or the study you refer to, senator. i know. ly respond to your question. but i think from i don't know if it was the same gao report or another one, that note order the 2005 brac round in our facility. i'm going ask mr. hale to...
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but this isn't. >> reporter: the gao reports hits that nail on the head. they said it's very difficult to determine where the legal line is here because what, for example, is political intelligence gathering for a hedge fund versus what's journalism. what i do all day is try to get information out of congress. >> we don't pay you nearly as much. >> reporter: that is certainly true. but we're doing that all day long. is that journalism, are we informing investors, is that trading activity. what is that? >> thank you. here now is information clinton white house aide david goodfriend and with me on set ed butowski and ed rogers. david goodfriend what do you think? >> insider trading is insider trading. it undermines markets when people use nonpublic information to execute a trade. whether you're the tipper or tippee if there's an inside trade it kills free market. it should be illegal. now your reporter made an excellent point which is here in washington people hire folks like me i'm a lawyer lobbyist. i walk around congress all day. i talk to government agen
but this isn't. >> reporter: the gao reports hits that nail on the head. they said it's very difficult to determine where the legal line is here because what, for example, is political intelligence gathering for a hedge fund versus what's journalism. what i do all day is try to get information out of congress. >> we don't pay you nearly as much. >> reporter: that is certainly true. but we're doing that all day long. is that journalism, are we informing investors, is that...
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secretary hale on that gao report would you give us any differences that you have. not now but in the record with that gao report in addition to requests by senator inhofe? >> may i say quickly we don't intend to keep the 2005 round. it's very different than what we would do and 25th team. >> if you could give us your criticisms are disagreements. senator reid. >> thank you very much. the secretary mentioned his comments that we are facing a lot of short-run constraints, sequestration and other issues but longer-term there are issues that have to be dealt with regardless of the present dilemma with sequestration in the budget control act. one of the growing personnel force and particularly the health care force and i know you face proposals in the budget in that regard and i want to direct a question to general dempsey. it would seem to me in order to effectively carry out any reform there has to be an ongoing dialogue with active personnel and reserve personnel and that dialogue is conducted by uniformed military who shares the service and the sacrifice of these mo
secretary hale on that gao report would you give us any differences that you have. not now but in the record with that gao report in addition to requests by senator inhofe? >> may i say quickly we don't intend to keep the 2005 round. it's very different than what we would do and 25th team. >> if you could give us your criticisms are disagreements. senator reid. >> thank you very much. the secretary mentioned his comments that we are facing a lot of short-run constraints,...
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nicole clowers is our guest with gao. here is it tweet coming in from moscow -- coming into us from rich. is there any exchange in terms of the research? guest: we are frequently in contact with members of congress. the report is addressed to a number of congressional committees and also addressed to -- we talked to them about the issues that we are studying. i keep them -- host: let us hear from tom from eastlake, ohio. good morning. theer: i am a veteran from end of world war two but have not had to use the va until maybe 10 years ago. from what i see in the cleveland area -- they have improved their system. ism worried this directive improved in a certain area. i have one further comment that the fact that we are in so many wars that our veterans and this system is so much more compromised than peace time. there are people like you who are trying to improve upon our fine system and are making strides and heading in the right direction. i appreciate c-span and very much. i watch it all the time. guest: we certainly appr
nicole clowers is our guest with gao. here is it tweet coming in from moscow -- coming into us from rich. is there any exchange in terms of the research? guest: we are frequently in contact with members of congress. the report is addressed to a number of congressional committees and also addressed to -- we talked to them about the issues that we are studying. i keep them -- host: let us hear from tom from eastlake, ohio. good morning. theer: i am a veteran from end of world war two but have not...
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i think every group within gao has produced a report. we have been able to pull together a number of reports the issue of the last decade or so. we have been highlighting these issues of overlap fragmentation and duplication but we did was hold them together and put them in one place for policymakers to consider. help organize3 to our work, we spend a systematic approach where we started with a budget, a rate that information across the agencies. by doing that in sort of graphic sense we can check to see whether there is tensions of fragmentation. we took budget documents, agency documents, went out into the field, interviewed people, went out and observe the progress of actions to further conduct our work on these issues. host: freeport, florida. alex -- go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i had a couple of questions for nicole clowers. the two undercover any kind of underhanded doings in your research? -- did you uncover any kind of underhand dealings in your research? to do research the fed or u.s. treasury? have one big c
i think every group within gao has produced a report. we have been able to pull together a number of reports the issue of the last decade or so. we have been highlighting these issues of overlap fragmentation and duplication but we did was hold them together and put them in one place for policymakers to consider. help organize3 to our work, we spend a systematic approach where we started with a budget, a rate that information across the agencies. by doing that in sort of graphic sense we can...
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as to whether the gao was correct. , by the time a gao is written sometimes you do not have the most current information. under these budget times, we any no interest in wasting taxpayer dollars. if i can find a redundancy or something that can be done efficiently, that is what our efficiency review process is all about. we are going to do that. >> when you see an area that needs our help, you guys got is doing three different things in three different areas that lead to the same results. here is a recommendation. why don't you guys change this? i would like that you be forward with us when you look at all that that the gao has put out and say congress, you have to change this for us if you expect us to be efficient and save money. >> fair enough. >> senator mccaskill talked about the science and technology directory and the duplication there. it's big in terms of what gao says. significant hav ae a increase in funding from 2012. can uyouyou talk about that? >> almost all of the increase in funding is for the nbass. determined bys everybody who looked at the issue that we needed a le
as to whether the gao was correct. , by the time a gao is written sometimes you do not have the most current information. under these budget times, we any no interest in wasting taxpayer dollars. if i can find a redundancy or something that can be done efficiently, that is what our efficiency review process is all about. we are going to do that. >> when you see an area that needs our help, you guys got is doing three different things in three different areas that lead to the same results....
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jeff duncan, and mike all mccall are asking the gao to review ammunition purchases by the homeland security department, because they think, as does sarah palin, that the u.s. government is trying to stockpile ammunition. these are elected members of congress. you combine that with this resistance to a gun registry or any kind of database, this notion of the government grabbing guns is really a legitimate theory in the has of congress. >> if you look at that 90/10 split, you have to ask yourself, what are the 10% that don't want universal background checks? what's motivating them? there has to be an element of survivalism, the real black helicopter syndrome, the government is trying to take away our guns, and with you need our guns, as the original constitution was, to protect ourselves against an overbearing government. that can be the only reason you can think of the motivation of the 10% that don't support -- >> but that's actually not what the constitution says. it says to protect the government. the militias were intended to protect the government. the idea that the founders who wrote i
jeff duncan, and mike all mccall are asking the gao to review ammunition purchases by the homeland security department, because they think, as does sarah palin, that the u.s. government is trying to stockpile ammunition. these are elected members of congress. you combine that with this resistance to a gun registry or any kind of database, this notion of the government grabbing guns is really a legitimate theory in the has of congress. >> if you look at that 90/10 split, you have to ask...
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today, the gao issued a report fed for acized the flawed review of foreclosure documents. i talked about procedures in monitoring firms. let me say this -- the fed undertook an independent for closure review in order to help borrowers who had been financially injured by server certification errors -- servicer errors. they took the lead in this effort because they supervised that werehe servicers involved. our prime objective was to get help to bar worse as quickly as we possibly could. over 4ed out that million borrowers were likely affected, and identifying and getting remediation to them turned out to be an immensely and costly process. initially, we believed that the review was something that would help, but once we were in the midst of it, it became clear that the review was serving actually to delay getting meaningful help to borrowers. this is obviously a development but we were not happy with, when we realized that, we decided that we needed to go in a different direction, and we tried to take what we thought was the best available option at that point. so we are in
today, the gao issued a report fed for acized the flawed review of foreclosure documents. i talked about procedures in monitoring firms. let me say this -- the fed undertook an independent for closure review in order to help borrowers who had been financially injured by server certification errors -- servicer errors. they took the lead in this effort because they supervised that werehe servicers involved. our prime objective was to get help to bar worse as quickly as we possibly could. over 4ed...
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host: the report is from the gao. the call, thank you for joining us this morning. all for "washington journal" today. we now go to the brookings institution for a panel on north korea and u.s. policy priorities. months,he last five there has been an increasingly tense war of words between north korea and the united states, south korea, japan, and china. there has been increasing concern that this war of nerves is going to change into a war of weapons. is thet recent concern possible launch of a north korean medium-range missile. april 15 seemed like a good day to do that since it is the 101st nniversary of kim il sung's birth. what a better present for the old man and to launch a missile in his name. there are lots of questions around this, what the implications are, whether there is a way out of this. i have six questions that i will post to my colleagues in different permutations and will marchs and we through these as expeditiously as we can to leave time for your questions. the first question is, is this crisis different from previous ones? if it is, in what wa
host: the report is from the gao. the call, thank you for joining us this morning. all for "washington journal" today. we now go to the brookings institution for a panel on north korea and u.s. policy priorities. months,he last five there has been an increasingly tense war of words between north korea and the united states, south korea, japan, and china. there has been increasing concern that this war of nerves is going to change into a war of weapons. is thet recent concern possible...
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i also support legislation introduced that would extend the gao requirement on advance appropriations and without i think two thank you and answer any questions you have. >> thank you, mr. blake for your information. in two weeks they will have an impact on va from a slew of commute to participate and be here to hear the testimony during that hearing. ms. amato, you're recognized for five minutes. [inaudible] i appreciate the opportunity to share their recommendations to an independent budget for fiscal year 2014. in light of the ongoing fiscal challenges facing our nation and growing demand for services, ipv and the administration make it their priority to ensure the va receives sufficient time and predictable funding. it's unfortunate the recommendations for the fiscal year 2014 associate since appropriation recommendations for 2015 have been delayed by two months and those are greatly concerned about how va program funding may be impacted going forward. additionally, the breakdown of the appropriations process is a major concern i'm almost certainly have a negative effect on all va
i also support legislation introduced that would extend the gao requirement on advance appropriations and without i think two thank you and answer any questions you have. >> thank you, mr. blake for your information. in two weeks they will have an impact on va from a slew of commute to participate and be here to hear the testimony during that hearing. ms. amato, you're recognized for five minutes. [inaudible] i appreciate the opportunity to share their recommendations to an independent...
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gao that can be done. that we're not doing. my only question is, why? are we depending on legal opinions? are we depending on other things that we can't do these things? is there a political aspect? i'm sitting there asking, you know, if only had been congress, and there has been discussion about and i know there is discussion about there just turning it all back over and putting it back under the government and not being -- that is just, not a viable answer. at this point. the people are not going to take another bailout of the postal service. it seems to me that instead of making decisions in which you can, there have been things, i don't want a listing, there are things light -- right now that could be doing that have been reported out we're not doing. the american people just ask one simple question, why not? >> mr. chairman, representative, respectfully aregm. we're consolidating plant. >> you implemented every report on the gao things you do everybody you can do. >> mr. chairman, representative, respectfully yes. >> six to five day has to come bac
gao that can be done. that we're not doing. my only question is, why? are we depending on legal opinions? are we depending on other things that we can't do these things? is there a political aspect? i'm sitting there asking, you know, if only had been congress, and there has been discussion about and i know there is discussion about there just turning it all back over and putting it back under the government and not being -- that is just, not a viable answer. at this point. the people are not...
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we recognize and take some faith in the fact that the gao reviewed our approach to implementing this program and very strongly commented on the effective reforms we put in place to have a clear and compelling implementation strategy for this effort. >> thank you. mr. yohannes i haven't left much time for larocco, jordan and el salvador but if you can reply in writing i don't wish to rush those answers because they are important. thank you very much. i am pleased to yield five minutes to our substitute ranking member for the substitute chair mr. sherman. >> thank you and chairman emeritus for your questions particularly in regard to the palestinian authority and the democracy in cuba to i want to associate myself with your concerns. the ngos are just there to try to provide relief for the development of our focus is also on our foreign policy objectives how do you coordinate with the state department to have our foreign policy in the national security objectives affect what you do? >> thank you representative. i guess i will offer a general point and then a specific one in terms of co
we recognize and take some faith in the fact that the gao reviewed our approach to implementing this program and very strongly commented on the effective reforms we put in place to have a clear and compelling implementation strategy for this effort. >> thank you. mr. yohannes i haven't left much time for larocco, jordan and el salvador but if you can reply in writing i don't wish to rush those answers because they are important. thank you very much. i am pleased to yield five minutes to...
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we recognize and take some faith in the fact that gao reviewed our approach to implementing this program, and very strongly commented on the effective reforms we put in place, to have a clear and compelling implementation strategy for this effort. >> thank you. and mr. johannes, i have not left you much time for morocco, el salvador. maybe you can reply in writing. i don't want to rush those answers, because they are important. please to yield five minutes to our substitute ranking member for the substitute chair. mr. sherman. >> thank you. and thank you, chairman emeritus, for your questions particularly with regard to the palestinian authority and democracy in cuba. i want to associate myself with your concerns. ngos just are there to provide relief, or development. usaid also focuses on our foreign policy objectives. minister shah, how do you coordinate with the state department to get -- to have our foreign policy, and a foreign policy and national security objectives affect what you do? >> well, thank you, representative sherman. i guess i'll offer a general point and a specific one
we recognize and take some faith in the fact that gao reviewed our approach to implementing this program, and very strongly commented on the effective reforms we put in place, to have a clear and compelling implementation strategy for this effort. >> thank you. and mr. johannes, i have not left you much time for morocco, el salvador. maybe you can reply in writing. i don't want to rush those answers, because they are important. please to yield five minutes to our substitute ranking member...